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offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 09:59 [#00478761]
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"that has everything to do with the person and not the
drugs"
exactly


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:02 [#00478766]
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promo, i'm not being nit picky at all, you've just missed my
point. as tony fish put it, there's it's not black and
white. i am not a loser, weak, or unreliable, and i know
plenty of drug appreciators who aren't either. you're
stereotypical drug user is just that. you are exremely
judgemental. if you say that you don't associate with users
at all, you must draw the line somewhere, which is why i ask
where you draw the line? how many drinks? is there a
certain number of tokes you can accept? you can't rightly
make judgements on people because they use a drug. you can
make perosonalty judgements, and you relate their problems
to drug abuse, but that doens't mean their negative
qualities are the qualities of all who use that particular
drug. i know you aren't stupid, but you ahve resorted to
simple minded bigotry.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:06 [#00478775]
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i like this thread much more than the god existence one :D
much more agreement.


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 10:08 [#00478778]
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lol I haven't had time to read the god existence article so
I'm giving that one a miss!


 

offline magiker from Östersund (Sweden) on 2002-12-12 10:08 [#00478780]
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I've done alot. But the only thing i really enjoy is
mushrooms. Once a year or so.


 

offline LuckyPsycho from a long way from home (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-12 10:08 [#00478781]
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Whats to tolerate?!

You are currently having a conversation with a drug user. Is
it upsetting you, or disturbing you? Do I appear weak, or
unrealiable to you?

Or is it that you think you are somehow better than us
'druggys' for having the strength to say no? It takes a fuck
load more strength to come off smack than it does to say no
to start with. So claiming that drug takers are weak, and
avoiding them because of it makes no sense.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:13 [#00478791]
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that one is long! i think it's about to be buried soon.


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 10:13 [#00478792]
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"Or is it that you think you are somehow better than us
'druggys' for having the strength to say no?"

That pretty much describes me about a year ago. Then I had
to sit down and think it over for a while and realised how
fucked up that train of thought was. Life is a process of
constant refinement of self (if that makes any sense !!!)


 

offline LuckyPsycho from a long way from home (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-12 10:14 [#00478794]
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yep... perfect sense


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2002-12-12 10:17 [#00478798]
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jupitah,

'i know you aren't stupid' why thank you for the complement.
Lol. :-)

I have always had an anti-drug view and the truth is on
occassions its got me into trouble (not physical though). I
don't know where one would draw the line. If I knew someone
who I respected and found to be trustworthy or whatever,
then subsequently found out they were into drugs, I don't
know what I'd do. It would certainly alter my view on them.
Truth is I genuinely don't associate with many people who
'currently do drugs'. I think it is pretty unavoidable not
to associate with people who haven't at some point in their
life taken drugs. I tend to think that most of the people I
know aren't into drugs. But I don't know difinitevely or
wouldn't really want to know.


 

offline LuckyPsycho from a long way from home (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-12 10:24 [#00478807]
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Sorry to keep bangin on about this, but Promo... what you
are saying is making less and less sense.

You start by saying that you don't want to associate with
anyone that takes drugs. Now you are saying that you
"wouldn't really want to know" if those people were.
Surely if your views are strong enough to say the things you
have posted here, you would be bothered if those around you
were taking drugs.

Now it seems that you don't know if they are, which begs the
question... what difference does it make? If you can't
tell!!


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:25 [#00478811]
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nobodies pointed this out but...
autechre = stoned out of thier head, chiastic slide quote
"was made on schrooms"
luke vibert is a huge stoner....
aphex is a stoner too

with electronic music it can help to be stoned because
otherwise it can be frustrating to fuck with cables and
software crashing. theres not immediate gratifacation, like
say pluging a guitar into an amp.


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 10:26 [#00478812]
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the argumentation is falling apart at the seams!


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 10:28 [#00478815]
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let it be said that aphex doesn't make music while under the
influence of drugs or, at least, that's what he says...
but drugs can give things like music entirely new dimensions
which is generally a good thing.


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:29 [#00478816]
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'nother point..

acid IS a HARD drug. that will fuck you up mentally for
the REST of your life.. i mean i would say that coke is 10
times better for... apart from the addiction..but it doesn't
fry your fuckin brains out. e is also very bad for you.....

schrooms are the best way to trip out in a semi-healthier
manner...
i'm not recomiending coke or anything but if you think
acid is ok for you then your trippin. pun intended


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:31 [#00478821]
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really? i suppose that makes sense.
but
i know that for mike and rick they were so fucking high it
had to be off the chart..


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 10:31 [#00478822]
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yeah but shrooms have been known to fuck people up too. As
jupitah says "everything to do with the person and not the
drugs"


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:51 [#00478837]
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promo, just realize when you make sweeping statements like
you have, people are going to be offended. i was offended.
maybe i should care less about what other people think of
me, but that's not realistic. i just don't feel comfortable
being thought of as a weak unreliable loser by somebody who
doesn't know me. it's a bit bothersome. i'm glad we could
have this mb to associate through.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2002-12-12 10:52 [#00478838]
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LuckyPsycho,

You're being extremely padantic and naive. You are missing
the point entirely. When I say 'I don't know' I say that
because of course I would have certain loyalities towards
someone, so it would be hard for me to just cut that person
straight off. I am human you know. And when I say 'that I
don't know difinitevely if someone is on drugs' I mean just
that. People can disguise these things pretty well. So all
I'm saying is one can't absolutely positively know 100% that
someone doesn't take drugs currently. I certainly believe
strongly that those I know don't take drugs and are also
anti-drugs but freinds usually agree with you and also tend
to keep some of their worst characteristics (things they
don't want others to see) out of sight. To make the point
absolutely clear. I believe very strongly that I don't
currently associate with anyone who takes drugs. Now do you
understand?


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:57 [#00478841]
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every experience you have changes you for the rest of your
life, and the more intense the experience, the greater you
are affected. acid will not necessarily "fuck you up" but
it certainly could. shrooms are no different. when playing
with fire, you're going to get burned. if you respect the
fire and approach it with maturity, good itentions and fire
education, you aren't necessarily going to be burned, but
nothing is certain. the whole shrooms=organic=good
acid=synthetic=bad holds no scienctific basis. a lot of it
has to do with fear and expectations. shrooms weren't that
widely available until terence and dennis mckenna wrote a
book that demystified the cultivation process, so acid
provided a psychedelic relief for those who needed it. which
was apparently a whole bunch of people:)


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 10:59 [#00478845]
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refering to the sixties


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 11:02 [#00478846]
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mike and rich would be the obvious exception yes !!


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 11:04 [#00478851]
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yes but some people are more mentally fragile (perhaps that
isn't best way of putting it) than others and these
experiences can damage them...


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 11:12 [#00478857]
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yeah, some are susceptible to damage. i think it has to
with the fact that when you do something as serious as lsd
or psilosybin, you really get confronted with a lot of
things in your subconcsious mind. if you have fears that
you aren't going to be able to face, they might eat you up.
i've been eaten up. i've seen people be eaten up.
psychedelics can be beautiful, peaceful and blissful, but i
just can't seem to find any use for them unless i'm going to
take it very seriously. not in the sense that it's not fun.
it's a tricky little balancing act is what it is, to me.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 11:14 [#00478861]
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walking the golden thread as my friend puts it. but that
applies to all life, not just psychoactive chem experience.


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2002-12-12 11:20 [#00478869]
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well i wasn't using the orgainic equals good arguement..
yes schrooms can fuck you up. yes you can go on unaffected
by acid and e...
imo shrooms are a much lesser evil and i would say are in
a different catogory than acid... this is my opinion.


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 11:35 [#00478880]
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ah yes I definately agree that they are a lesser evil,
probably one of the safest..


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-12-12 11:53 [#00478891]
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I just feel the need to back up Promo:

I feel the exact way he does.

I don't know why, life just made it that way. I don't judge
anymore, I used to, I'll admit that.

I just can't stand to be around drug/alcohol users when they
are lit or not. Just won't do it.

Personal choice like people who drink and do drugs have
made, I don't judge, but I feel 100% what promo is saying.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 12:59 [#00478960]
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i wasn't implying that you were using the org=good argument,
i just brought that up cause i hear it so often. don't
panic it's organic! as for mushrooms being safer, i'm not
sure what that is based on. some people swear that
mushrooms made them insane but acid is very friendly. who
is right? i think it depends on the psychology of the
individual. there is no chemical basis that i know of. of
course there hasn't been too much hard-science research on
this stuff. if you think mushrooms are safer (i assume you
mean in the psychological sense) then they probably are...
for you.


 

offline LeCoeur from the outer edge of the universe (United States) on 2002-12-12 17:33 [#00479210]
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hummmmmm.......ok again i feel the need to express my
thoughts.

why can't people accept (whether they think they are
prejudiced/wrong/lame/narrowminded/etc. or not) other
peoples attitudes and beliefs about drugs??

it seems like some people on here feel the need to change
peoples minds about strongly heald beliefs about
drugs/alcohol, etc. instead of RESPECTING their choices.

i DO NOT want to be around people who take drugs or are
drugged out.....same goes for drunks .....is that wrong. NO.
it's MY choice, not anyone elses.

the people that choose to take drugs.....i say GO FOR IT,
it's your life, your choice. just please don't talk down to
me like i'm not COOL or something because i choose something
different. it's RUDE and i don't like the intimations that i
or anyone else who makes the same choice is making the WRONG
one.

i let you go your way......let me go mine. and keep comments
about how UNcool people are that don't agree with you to
yourself!



 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-12-12 18:13 [#00479235]
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sure but when did anyone say anyone was 'uncool'. As far as
I'm concerned you're all on xltronic and thus you're all
cool ;)


 

offline LeCoeur from the outer edge of the universe (United States) on 2002-12-12 18:26 [#00479245]
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it's just a feeling i get..........

it really doesn't bother me in the sense that i don't rely
on other's opinions about me, for my self worth. it's just
not right for peepz to say 'you don't know what you're
talking about cos you've never tried it' cos......for
example i don't need to taste garbage to know what it would
taste like.

i don't like people THINKING that they can or SHOULD change
peoples minds about personal choices. it's such a lack of
respect IMO.


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-12 19:14 [#00479285]
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bloody hell, its good to see a topic that i started getting
such a response out of people for once.
the way i see it, if alcohol and tobacco were introduced
into society now, and not a few hundred years ago, would
they be made legal?
no, of course not, thousands of people are killed by both of
these, be it cancer or killed in a drink driving car
accident every year.
how many people are killed each year from taking ecstasy? in
the uk, probably no more than 40 i reckon.
the only problem with drugs like ecstasy and ketamine is
people frown upon them because they are illegal.
i work in a bar and i don't drink, but for the past 12
weekends in a row i have got wrecked on drugs.
but i know people who go for a drink every day. not to get
drunk though.
but what i'm saying is that alcohol is more habit forming
than ecstasy. i don't neck one every day. but people go down
the pub every day.
i've never seen anyone start a fight cos they've had a pill,
but after a few beers people do. not everyone obviously.

"leaves the room to get some rocks."


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-12-12 19:29 [#00479299]
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You don't wanna be around me coz I take drugs?
That sounds liek not respecting other peoples beliefs to
me.

Pff fine then you're not invited to my birthday party ;-P


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 22:51 [#00479444]
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first of all, nobody would suggest that, of all people, you
weren't cool! second of all, you sound as if you haven't
really read the topic. i don't speak for everyone here, but
my main argument is that i am not a weak unreliable loser.
am i disrespecting people's beliefs by reacting defensively
to such bigotry? i think the "feeling" that you got was a
bit off maybe. maybe not, but it has nothing to do with
what i have been saying.


 

offline deadwhitespoon from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-12-12 22:58 [#00479448]
Points: 271 Status: Lurker



Um...I did a mb search for drug topics and there
were...like...880...about 150 of which were purely and
passionately about drugs.

After reading through them...real quick-like...it seems like
90% of anyone who's done drugs is pro-drug, while 90% of
anti-druggies have never done and never will do drugs...

hmm...


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2002-12-12 23:01 [#00479449]
Points: 1568 Status: Lurker



its not anyones fault that theyre puppets of drug war
propaganda :D


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-12-12 23:01 [#00479450]
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you mean pro-drug like they like doing drugs personally or
prodrug as in they recommend othersa use drugs?


 

offline deadwhitespoon from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-12-12 23:03 [#00479451]
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"pro-drug" meaning: they took drugs and the experience they
had was good and positive and life enhansing for their own
person...
...and didn't affect anyone else that wasn't affected
already.


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2002-12-12 23:06 [#00479453]
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pro drug because all drugs are addictive and bad and cause
everyone who does them to be doomed for all eternity!!
Round them up and destroy them all!! :D


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-12-12 23:08 [#00479459]
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"all drugs are addictive"
hahahahahahah omg omg
dude learn a leetle about the topic before you say dumb
stuff

unless you were joking, in which case "touche!!"


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-12 23:11 [#00479463]
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pro drug as in they take them for a living.


 

offline deadwhitespoon from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-12-12 23:12 [#00479464]
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Hey...

We're all Doomed. It's just that some dooms are just
superior to others.


 

offline deadwhitespoon from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-12-12 23:15 [#00479465]
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Pro drug as in they make them for a living.
Pro Drug as in they sell them for a living.
Pro Drug as in they bust them for a living.
Pro drug as in they patent them for a living.
Pro drug as in they make them available for the rich for a
living.
Pro drug as in they advertise them for a living.
Pro Drug as in the Rich eat the Poor for a living.
Pro Drug as in they live.


 

offline deadwhitespoon from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-12-12 23:15 [#00479466]
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Go Leafs!


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2002-12-13 00:16 [#00479489]
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poop to drugs!


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-12-13 01:46 [#00479535]
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Drugs undermine the cohesion of our society, along with
homosexuality and promiscuity. I consider myself to be quite
liberal but I think we have slid too far down a slippery
slope. Its time to climb back up that slope, clearing to
slime and scum as we go.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2002-12-13 03:10 [#00479555]
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Drugs are not the problem - it's the people that take them
that are the problem. People under the influence of drugs
have been responsible for every great piece of music, every
great piece of literature, every great piece of art, every
invention known to mankind. Drugs help to enhance and
inspire gifted minds and I believe help to speed up
evolution.

Unfortunately, when the hoi polloi get hold of drugs, the
only thing it enhances is their stupidity and
aggressiveness. I suggest IQ tests should be a prerequisite
to experimenting.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-12-13 03:26 [#00479566]
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You're not a drug taker then?


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2002-12-13 03:36 [#00479575]
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Well as a matter of fact....wait a minu......oh i get it
........ hahaahahahahahahaha ......no........
hahahahahah..... god you're funneeeee!


 


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